In observance of the Memorial Day holiday, the Library Services team will not staff the Lee Graff Medical and Scientific Library building Monday, May 29, 2017. We will respond to your questions and process interlibrary loan and document delivery requests on Tuesday, May 30.

Please remember that the City of Hope community may access the library anytime. Although the Graff Library building is staffed Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., the building is available 365/24/7 via badge access at our back egress (near the Hilton building). For more information, refer to the After Hours brochure.

We have recently received and uploaded a new batch of electronic resources from HSTalks into our catalog. The library added this resource in late 2013 and has access to the full series of Biomedical & Life Sciences Lectures which contains over 2,000 online seminar style talks by the world’s leading experts on the latest research, developments and fundamentals of the field.

In February, City of Hope held its sixth annual Learning and Personal Development Week to foster learning and growth among employees. As in the past, the Graff Medical and Scientific Library has added a small collection of titles to complement the keynote speakers’ talks. These titles are available for check out immediately.

For more professional development resources, browse through the library’s Career and Professional Development Collection and titles from previous years of LPDW! Contact library staff (library@coh.org or ext. 87497) if you have any suggestions for titles that would assist you or your department with your professional growth.

Mark Sanborn “You Don’t Need a Title to Be a Leader: How Anyone Anywhere Can Make a Positive Difference” Monday, February 6, 2017.

Want to read that latest bestseller you keep hearing about? Need a copy of a new title for your book club? We are always seeking recommendations for ourPopular Reading Collection. This collection is comprised of 200 books with 25 to 30 titles being cycled in every quarter based on patron recommendations, staff suggestions and picks from the New York Times’Best Sellers list.

The purpose of the collection is to offer the City of Hope community both fiction and nonfiction titles to browse and borrow. Titles include:

recent bestselling titles by popular authors

biographies

humor

popular science writing

much more

If we’re unable to get a copy through our vendor, we can work with you to get it through interlibrary loan.

If you would like to make a suggestion, please contact Brian Chambers, Discovery & Access librarian, atbchambers@coh.orgor ext. 87497.

Interlibrary loan is a service whereby a user of one library can borrow books or receive copies of documents that are owned by another library. Through our networks, we are able to supplement our collection to provide our patrons with nearly everything they need: hence the idea of the Infinite Library.

Learn more at our 45-minute hands-on session. The basics of accessing electronic resources, an introduction to interlibrary loan and document delivery, and an overview of related copyright laws will be covered. You will leave this session with tips and tricks for how to better access our online journals and books as well as how to place requests using ILLiad, our online document delivery and interlibrary loan system.

The session is scheduled for March 29th at 2:00pm in the Graff Library (Room G112). Laptops will be provided. Please visit here to register.

Want to read that latest bestseller you keep hearing about? Need a copy of a new title for your book club? We are always seeking recommendations for ourPopular Reading Collection. This collection is comprised of 200 books with 25 to 30 titles being cycled in every quarter based on patron recommendations, staff suggestions and picks from the New York Times’Best Sellers list.

The purpose of the collection is to offer the City of Hope community both fiction and nonfiction titles to browse and borrow. Titles include:

recent bestselling titles by popular authors

biographies

humor

popular science writing

much more

If we’re unable to get a copy through our vendor, we can work with you to get it through interlibrary loan.

If you would like to make a suggestion, please contact Brian Chambers, Discovery & Access librarian, atbchambers@coh.orgor ext. 87497.